With FontLab VI, you can create, open, modify, draw, space, kern, hint and export desktop, web, color and variable fonts. The app is an all-around font editor, but also supports data interchange with other font creation tools.

FontLab VI brings groundbreaking new drawing tools and responsive contour operations to make your design process easier and more efficient, whether youre an expert or a beginner.

FontLab now supports color and variability, so you can explore these new possibilities and expand your creative reach. Weve integrated industry-standard software components and codified established best practices into the app, to help make your fonts technically top-notch.

Features

Drawing & Importing

Draw outline-based glyphs using the Brush, Pencil, Rapid, Pen, Ellipse, and Rectangle tools, in a fractional coordinate space with live rounding into integer coordinates. Use upright and slanted grids, flexible guidelines, snapping suggestions and live measurement tools for consistent and precise vector drawing. Paste and import vector artwork, scanned character sets or color bitmap glyphs, and turn them into monochrome fonts via customizable autotracing, and into color fonts. Draw calligraphic letterforms using a live, adjustable PowerBrush tool, assign and expand strokes.

Space entire phrases and kern according to planned pair lists. Apply tracking, modify widths, sidebearings and kerning globally or for selected glyphs. Automatically or manually link metrics between glyphs using complex expressions. Kern between classes and glyphs in a UFO- and OpenType-compatible way, with exceptions. Automatically build kerning classes. Automatically calculate metrics and kerning, or use autokerning suggestions as you kern manually.